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21 Booksellers Who Blog

Many AbeBooks booksellers are also dedicated bloggers. Each seller’s blog is one of a kind, created with a deep love of books – from sharing images of vintage cover art, to cataloging recent acquisitions and sales, to publishing in-depth educational articles, to recounting highly entertaining stories of personal experiences, both in the trade and about the book life in general.

Check them out – we think you’ll be impressed. We certainly are.

If you’re an AbeBooks bookseller who blogs, let us know – we’d love to add you to the list. Send the URL for your blog to media@abebooks.com.

Any Amount of Books’ blog, Jot101, wants to be a place known for its “dogged curiosity and thirst for knowledge – however abstruse”. It’s a blog where anyone can submit a ‘jot’ – notes and comments on readings, obscure data discovered through a variety of sources. Their old blog, Bookride, is still available and also contains many fascinating stories about rare books and their values.

Bauman Rare Books – New York City, Philadelphia, Las Vegas

Bauman Rare Books blog features the stories behind great works in literature. The blog also includes Rare Books 101, an online mini-course covering all the fundamentals of collecting rare books. Rebecca Romney, manager of Bauman’s Las Vegas location, also maintains her own blog, called Aldine by Rebecca Romney.

One of our long-time favorite blogs, Books Tell You Why is an invaluable resource for collectors, booksellers, journalists, and anyone interested in the world of books. Covering an eclectic mix of topics, recent posts range from ’10 Surprising Facts about Albert Einstein’ to ‘How to Identify First Editions from Doubleday’.

Jim Reed is as much a writer as he is a bookseller, and his blog, redclaydiary.com, is a rabbit-hole of entertaining stories and ramblings on a wide variety of topics, from musings on an unfamiliar customer to memories of childhood roller skates to the beauty of the book.

Wessel & Lieberman’s blog, called Book Patrol: A Haven for Book Culture, is “a blog to celebrate the book in all its forms … spanning the internet to bring you book news, images and related content from all corners of the globe.”